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For most companies, the Human Resources department has a long history of guarding sensitive employee data. Rows of beige file cabinets line a back closet where only those with a key and knowledge of the filing system have access to the personal information of countless employees. The greatest risk to this data has always been fire or water damage, but that’s quickly changing with the emergence of online data storage.

Today’s data centers are expected to deploy, manage, and report on different tiers of business applications, databases, virtual workloads, home
directories, and file sharing simultaneously. They also need to co-locate multiple systems while sharing power and energy. This is true for large as
well as small environments. The trend in modern IT is to consolidate as much as possible to minimize cost and maximize efficiency of data
centers and branch offices. HPE 3PAR StoreServ is highly efficient, flash-optimized storage engineered for the true convergence of block, file,
and object access to help consolidate diverse workloads efficiently. HPE 3PAR OS and converged controllers incorporate multiprotocol support
into the heart of the system architecture

There’s been a long procession of game-changing innovations that have revolutionized storage, from early file systems to the recent introduction of VVOLS. Which have had the biggest impact on storage today? Which will be the most critical technologies going forward?

GARTNER HAS NAMED DELL EMC AS A LEADER FOR DISTRIBUTED FILE SYSTEMS AND OBJECT STORAGE. This report evaluates Distributed File and Object Storage vendors that help customers deal with the rapid growth in unstructured data. Isilon, the industry leader in scale-out NAS storage, and Dell EMC Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS), were both recognized as leaders in this Gartner report. We believe this recognition demonstrates our industry-leading capabilities to help prepare our customers for their digital future.

The verification workload comprises hundreds of millions of small files, very high metadata, and extremely high performance read, write, and delete requirements.
The Pure Storage FlashBlade product’s innovative design provides high IOPS and throughput, and low latency and fast deletes – yielding an average 25% faster wall clock completion time.

The Aspera FASP high speed transport platform is enabled to provide
high-performance secure WAN transport of files, directories, and other
large data sets to, from and between a number of leading third-party
cloud storage platforms. The implementation is an enhanced transport
stack and virtual file system layer in the Aspera server software that
allows for direct-to-object-storage transfer over the WAN using the FASP
protocol and the native I/O capabilities of the particular third-party file
system. The stack is available in all generally available Aspera server
software products and supports interoperable transfer with all generally
available Aspera client software

3TIER helps organizations understand and manage the risks associated with renewable energy projects. A pioneer in wind and solar generation risks analysis, 3TIER uses science and technology to frame the risk of weather-driven variability, anywhere on Earth.
3TIER's unique expertise is in combining the latest weather data with historical weather patterns, and using the expertise of 3TIER's meteorologists, engineers and data scientists to create a detailed independent assessment of the future renewable energy potential of any location.

With the increasing mainstream adoption of big data infrastructure — highly distributed file storage and query tools — more businesses are taking a new look at what business intelligence and analytics can do to grow revenue, increase profits and ultimately develop strategic relationships with customers.

In this study we compared the attributes of storage efficiency and ease of managing and monitoring an EMC VNX unified array versus an HP 3PAR StoreServ unified array. The approach we used was to setup two arrays side-by-side and recorded the actual complexity of managing each array for file and block access, per the documents and guides provided for each product. We also went through the exercise of sizing various arrays via publicly available configuration guides to see what the expected storage density efficiency would be for some typically configured systems. Our conclusion was nothing short of astonishment. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

In this study we compared the attributes of storage efficiency and ease of managing and monitoring an EMC VNX unified array versus an HP 3PAR StoreServ unified array. The approach we used was to setup two arrays side-by-side and recorded the actual complexity of managing each array for file and block access, per the documents and guides provided for each product. We also went through the exercise of sizing various arrays via publicly available configuration guides to see what the expected storage density efficiency would be for some typically configured systems. Our conclusion was nothing short of astonishment. Read this whitepaper to learn more.

Unstructured data has exploded in volume over the past decade. Unstructured data, media files and other data can be created just about anywhere on the planet using almost any smart device available today. As the amount of unstructured data grows exponentially, customers using this data need to be able to take advantage of the right storage solutions to support all of their file and object data requirements. IBM® recently added a new storage system to their Spectrum product family, IBM Spectrum Network Attached Storage (NAS). IBM Spectrum NAS adds another software-defined file storage system to IBM’s current unstructured data storage solutions, IBM Spectrum Scale™ and IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS). Below, we will discuss the three systems and supply some guidance on when and where to use each of them.

BlueArc’s Titan Architecture creates a revolutionary step in file servers by creating a hardware-based file system that can scale throughput, IOPS and capacity well beyond conventional software-based file servers. With its ability to virtualize a massive storage pool of up to 4 petabytes of usable, tiered storage, Titan can scale with growing data requirements and provide a competitive advantage for business processes by consolidating applications while ensuring optimal performance.

External collaboration is a major source of information risk. New tools make document collaboration much easier, but may have serious security issues.
Learn more about industry trends and demands for security and compliance in online collaboration.

Online collaboration has allowed companies to leapfrog their competition. But how do they avoid risk? This paper explores options for high-productivity collaboration supporting security and compliance. Must reading for anyone interested in strategic IT and compliance!

Recently, enterprises have seen enormous gains in scalability, flexibility, and affordability as they migrated from proprietary, monolithic server architectures to architectures that are virtualized, open source, standardized, and commoditized.

EMC Isilon scale-out network-attached storage (NAS) is a simple and scalable platform to build a scale-out data lake and persist enterprise files of all sizes that scale from terabytes to petabytes in a single cluster. It enables you to consolidate storage silos, improve storage utilization, reduce costs, while providing you a future proofed platform to run today and tomorrow's workloads.

Office 365 is the #1 Business productivity solution and the leading collaboration tool in the world. Yes, you are familiar with Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the rest of the Office Suite, but Office 365 is much more. Office 365 includes OneDrive for Business that offer 50GB per user for email and 1 TB for file storage. Combining OneDrive and SharePoint allows for real-time collaboration for employees in any location using any of the Office applications. Collaboration is further expanded as a tool to improve productivity and communications with Skype for Business. Skype for Business supports VoIP and Wi-Fi calls over a laptop, PC, Tablet or smartphone. It also provides conference calling to engage your employees, partners and, most importantly, customers.

With the growth of unstructured data and the challenges of modern workloads such as Apache Spark™, IT teams have seen a clear need during the past few years for a new type of all-flash storage solution, one that has been designed specifically for users requiring high levels of performance in file- and object-based environments. With FlashBlade™, it addresses performance challenges in Spark environments by delivering the consistent performance of all-flash storage with no caching or tiering, as well as fast metadata operations and instant metadata queries.

F5 and Data Domain have joined their respective solutions, forming a partnership designed to assist customers in deploying and realizing the benefits of tiered storage. By combining F5’s tiered storage policy engine with Data Domain deduplication storage systems, mutual customers can realize the benefits of deploying tiered storage and, importantly, see dramatic reductions in the costs of storage.

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